Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Loading
PB![]()
author
Philip Ball
Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written m...view morePhilip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and was an editor at Nature for more than twenty years. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has written many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water, Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour, The Music Instinct, and Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Ball is also a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Modern Myths. He lives in London.view less
Books by Philip Ball
Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInvisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5El instinto musical: Escuchar, pensar y vivir la música Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Audiobooks by Philip Ball
Beyond Weird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Minds: How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5